Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting this website and reviewing our Privacy Policy. 

We are committed to protecting your privacy and securing the personal information made available to us when you access our public-facing websites and applications. This Privacy Policy describes what information is made available to us, what information we collect, how that information is used, and how information is stored when you visit this public-facing website.

If you access information on our websites, we, or a contractor operating on our behalf, will automatically collect and store the following basic information:

• The name of the internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you are connecting from a university's domain);
• The Internet Protocol (IP) address (a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you are using the Internet) from which you access our site;
• The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
• The date and time you access our site;
• The internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site; and
• The pages you visit and the information you request.

Our company primarily collects this information for statistical analyses and technical improvements to the site. For example, our company computer system uses software programs to create summary statistics that may be used for such purposes as assessing what information is of most and least interest to the public, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.

We work with accounts on third-party websites and applications. These third-party website and application service providers may themselves automatically collect and store additional information about you, in accordance with their terms of service and privacy policies. Our company does not control what these third-parties service providers do with the information they collect.

You are not required to provide any personal information to us to access information on our websites. If you choose to provide us with personal information, such as by sending a message to an email address on this website or by filling out and submitting a form through our website, we will use that information to respond to your message or to fulfill the stated purpose of the communication. We may retain your information indefinitely. Remember that internet communications are not necessarily secure from interception. Do not send sensitive data (e.g. Social Security numbers) by e-mail or Web form.

Website measurement and customization technologies (commonly called “cookies") are small bits of text that are downloaded to your internet browser when you visit a website. We use cookies to enable programs, including Google Analytics, to measure how new and returning visitors use our websites over time. These cookies do not collect any personally identifying information, and the information collected is used only to improve our websites. 

Our websites contains links to websites created and maintained by other public or private organizations. We provide these links as a service to visitors to our site. When you follow a link to an external site, you are leaving our website and are subject to the privacy and security policies of the external site.